GamesIndustry International has an excerpt from their in-depth interview with Blizzard's Rob Pardo where the World of Warcraft lead designer expresses skepticism about the "endangered species" of AAA single-player games. "I don't see there being a great business model for it these days. It's really sad, there's just a lot of elements out there that conspire to make those games difficult to make now," he says. "Between pirating or the ability for people to rent games, it's hard for publishers to pour millions and millions of dollars into a game and not necessarily see the return they need to make those budgets realistic."

Oh and speaking of Blizzard games, I got my first Diablo 3 phishing email last night.

Greetings!

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal Diablo III account(s).As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled.It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainm?ent 's employees.If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:* link removed *Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account.

If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.